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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

John Grogan is not getting bad press here at all. Mr Grogan is a champion of the pub industry and heads up just about the largest group of MPs in the country in the APPBG. As such he is hugely influential at least because of the position he holds he gets the ear of anyone in government he wants to. So he is a Key Player.

It is useful if a person is appraised of all the FACTS when they are a Key Player. Mr Grogan quite clearly has an overview of the pub industry which is empiricial save for one enormous omission. HE does not know much about the factual position of TIED LESSEES with relation to their pubco freeholders. Robert Humphreys is the secretary to the APPBG, and advises Mr Grogan about the state of the industry. Mr Humphreys has said that pubcos are akin to franchises, a business model operated all over the western economies with great success. Which side of the pubco / individual publican line APPBG stands on is self evident when you see where its operational funds come from. The APPBG's (this being the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group, please do not get it confused with the Asociación de Pequeños Productores Bananeros),

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J Mark Dodds

I’m one of the Pub Persuaders, one of the Pub Professionals, one of the People who knows what’s going on – in PUBS that is - and this blog is about pubs, why they are so important to people and why they must be preserved, reinvigorated, enhanced and remade fit for purpose for the 21st century and beyond and how they must be made sustainable so that future generations can enjoy and learn from the rich seams of knowledge that can be found on everyone’s doorstep in every humble pub – until it’s closed forever – until it’s too late and people say ‘what happened to our pub? We really NEEDED that pub!’
I’m a publican, parent and photographer with a lot of food and drink experience in some of the busiest restaurants and clubs in Britain. Since long before 2008 (when I co-founded the Fair Pint Campaign) I’ve been a pro pubs, people and places person at the forefront of the national conversation about why pubs are closing… everywhere.
I love good pubs, my kids love good pubs, all my friends love good pubs – everyone loves good pubs and I’m determined to make sure good pubs remain part of everybody’s experience - of growing up in the UK and of visiting this country.